Education

postgraduate diploma ( with honors )

Thierry is co-founder and Managing Director of Hera Capital.He has over 15 years of investment experience across a range of industries, having invested over €300 million in 14 investments, spanning 8 countries.

Thierry is co-founder and Managing Director of Hera Capital.He has over 15 years of investment experience across a range of industries, having invested over €300 million in 14 investments, spanning 8 countries.

Before starting Hera Capital Partners in 2009, he was a partner with Vision Capital, a private equity fund with €1.8 billion under management.
At Vision Capital, he completed a number of investments in food manufacturing (buy-out of 4 divisions with combined revenues of c. £350 million from Northern Foods in 2007), and in oil & gas equipment (buy-out of JDR in 2007, the world's leading manufacturer of thermoplastic umbilical cables and tow-array cables).

Before joining Vision Capital in 2005, he was with Lion Capital (previously known as Hicks Muse Tate & Furst), a €800 million private equity specialist in consumer businesses (where he participated in the buy-out of Materne (a French leading compotes dessert manufacturer).

Between 1998 and 2003, he was with GMT Communications Partners, a €365 million pan-European fund dedicated to media and telecom services, where he participated to 7 transactions.

He started his career with Banque Indosuez, Singapore, in 1995 and holds a postgraduate diploma (with honors) from Essec Business School.He currently resides in Singapore.

Hera Capital's team is led by Thierry de Panafieu and Sebastien Guillaud, with the support of a dedicated Singapore-based team.

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Thierry de Panafieu

Managing Partner

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Thierry is co-founder and Managing Director of Hera Capital.He has over 15 years of investment experience across a range of industries, having invested over €300 million in 14 investments, spanning 8 countries.

Thierry de Panafieu joined Vision Capital in October 2005 as a Director.Prior to this, he spent 2 years at Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst/Lion Capital and 5 years at GMT Communications Partners, working on European deals with a particular focus on the media and food industries.

Throughout his 7 years of private equity experience, Thierry has worked on 10 transactions in 8 European countries for an equity investment of about ,400 million.Thierry is a French citizen who speaks fluent French and Spanish and holds a postgraduate diploma (with honours) from Essec Business School.